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BOS Topic Of The Day #1

If you're still figuring things out or is new to witchery, here's your chance to study the different type of witches / witchcraft traditions. If you find a specific style you like, why does it interest you? Or what type of witch are you hoping to be? Do you have a mentor you'd like to be equivalent to? Please explain.

If you've been a witch for some time now, what type of witch are you? What about that "style / tradition" suits you? What about it made you hooked, and how long have to been practicing it? If youd like to add something about your practice / tradition that is different, feel free to share.

🌙 Types Of Traditions :crystal_ball:

:ghost: Alexandrian Wicca :ghost:

Founded in England during the 1960s, Alex Sanders referred himself as the "King" of his witches. The rituals are said to be modified Gardnerian.

🕷Gardnerian🕷

Gardnerian Wicca is the oldest, most formal modern Wiccan tradition. Based on the teachings and practices of Gerald Gardner, it is named "Gardnerian" in order to honor him but also to distinguish this tradition from older, less formalized traditions.

⛮Atheist Witches⛮

As atheists, these witches do not acknowledge a Supreme Creator or the Wiccan conception of a Lord and Lady; but work their magic using Earth's natural powers and energies. Some may work with elemental spirits such as land spirits or fairies.

:woman: Cabot Traditional :woman:

This tradition, based on the teachings of Salem witch Laurie Cobt, emphasizes that witchcraft is a science, art and religion. The Cabot Tradition also emphasizes psychic development.

🕸Chaos Magick🕸

There is no one specific school of Chaos Magick, nor do it's practitioners adhere to one specific philosophy or spiritual tradition. Instead those who define themselves as chaos magicians share a certain attitude toward magick. Chaos Magick is defined as the primal creative force in the universe. Chaos magicians learn and experiment with various magickal techniques in order to tap into this underlying primal, creative force in whatever ways work best and most effectively for them. Chaos magick is influenced by the visionary artist and magician Austin Osman Spare, who wrote, "What is there to believe, but in Self?"

*The Clan Of Tubal Cain*

This tradition, founded by English witch Robert Cochrane, is based on practical traditional witchcraft, shamanism, Celtic mysticism, and Cochranes interpretation of Druid rules. The American branch of the Clan of Tubal Cain is known as the 1734 Tradition.

🤰🏻Dianic Wicca🤰🏻

Dianic Wicca is a feminist spiritual tradition and the only form of witchcraft that is exclusively female. Women's rights and rites are combined in celebration of female divinity. The name of the tradition pays tribute to the Italian Goddess, Diana. Among Dianic Wicca's founding mothers is author Z. Budapest, who formed the Susan Bush. Anthony Coven in Los Angeles on the Winter Solstice of 1971.

🕊Faerie Witchcraft🕊

This shamanic tradition involves actual interaction with fairies. Faerie witches, also spelled fairy witches, practice Earth-entered magick with emphasis on plant and animal familiars. Historically, many witches have worshipped and communed with fairies.

:leaves: Feri Traditional :leaves:

This shamanic, ecstatic, initiatory, and magickal system, also sometimes spelled Fairy, Faery or Fearie Tradition, began its modern incarnation in the 1940s. Victor Anderson is the founder. Another branch of Feri Tradition is known as Vicia. Feri Tradition derives originally from a primordial people who emerged from Africa thousands of years ago. Feri is an experimental tradition and various distinct Feri lineages and teachers exist. Different lineages are influenced to different extents by different spiritual traditions including Celtic, Hawaiian and Vodou. What most Feri practitioners share in common is direct personal interaction with spirits or deities. They do not subscribe to the Wiccan Rede, instead, each practitioner must take personal responsibility for his or own actions.

:deciduous_tree: Hedge Witchery :deciduous_tree:

No initiation is necessary to be a hedge witch. Hedge witches are unaffiliated, solitary practitioners. The term "hedge witch" derives from "hedge rider" and similar northern European synonyms for witch. A hedge is a dense wall of bushes and other shrubbery. The modern term "hedge witch" is sometimes used as synonym for "kitchen witch" or is intended to serve as an all encompassing name for the large community of non-affiliated, non-initiated, non-Wiccan witches. The term "hedge witch, " however, possesses shamanic undertones. By definition, a hedge rider or hedge witch travels between at least two worlds: the world of conventional reality and a spirit or afterlife realm.

:family: Hereditary Witchcraft :family:

A hereditary witch comes from a family in which at least one other person is or was a witch. Most hereditary witches derive from a lineage of witches; although sometimes generations are skipped. Some hereditary witches share traditions that are unique to their own families, but others do not.

:dolls: Hoodoo :dolls:

A high percentage rate of the enslaved Africans in the pre-Civil War United States were of Congolese origin. They brought a sophisticated system if magic with them to North America, where it merged with European folk magick, Native American, and other African traditions to form a whole new magickal system called Hoodoo. A practitioner of Hoodoo is traditionally known as a "worker." Hoodoo is very closely related to New Orleans Voodoo; the names are sometimes used interchangeably. Hoodoo is a system of practical magick, not a specific spiritual tradition. Hoodoo practitioners may belong to any or no religion. There are Pagan, atheist, and Jewish Hoodoo workers.

🥀Independent Eclectic🥀

Most modern witches are not affiliated with any one specific tradition. Most witches incorporate whatever works for them or compliments their own spiritual beliefs. Urban witches, in particular, may have many influences that are then integrated and incorporated in independent and eclectic ways. No one category may be sufficient to identify their practice.

☠Jewitchery☠

This informal and eclectic tradition incorporates witchcraft, magickal practice, and often shamanism with Judaism or Jewish self-awareness. Emphasis is placed on individualism. A Jewitch may or may not be a religious Jew. Judaism may be understood as a tribal group rather than religion and so essentially a Jewish is someone who identifies as both Jewish and as a witch. Some Jewiches incorporate traditional Jewish folk magick or Jewish angelology into their practice. Others identify with pre_exile or pre-Second Temple Jewish traditions that may have been monotheistic than modern Judaism.

:herb: Kitchen Witchery :herb:

Kitchen witchery is a practice, rather than a specific spiritual or magical tradition. A kitchen witch can cast a spell using ingredients found in her kitchen cupboards. Her magickal tools may or may not be indistinguishable from ordinary household tools. Most kitchen witches are solitary practitioners. Much kitchen witchery involves magickal protection of the home and family. Spells are also cast in the form of delicious meals. A kitchen witch may be conscious of stirring egg in a clockwise direction in order to draw in positive solar energy for instance. A synonym for kitchen witch is hearth witch. A kitchen witch also refers to a kind of doll, a household amulet in the form of a flying witch that is traditionally hung in the kitchen to bring good luck. These kitchen witches are of Scandinavian origin and recall Swedish Easter witches.

⛤Non-Wiccan Witches⛤

This term was invented in response to the now common assumption that all modern witches are Wiccan. Non-Wiccan witches may belong to any tradition other than modern Wicca. Non-Wiccan witches may belong to any spiritual or religious tradition or none- agnostic or atheist witches are typically considered non-Wiccan. Shamanic witches who perceive spirits as unique individual beings rather than as aspects of the Lord and Lady may also identify as non-Wiccan. Those who do not subscribe to the Wiccan Rede are, by definition, non-Wiccan.

🦇Shamanic Witchcraft🦇

By definition, shamanic witches blend elements of shamanism into their witchcraft. Some use the term "shamanic witch" to indicate a spirit worker, but a shamanic witch may incorporate trance and shamanic soul journeying into her practice, practices are not necessarily done by a spirit worker.

:feet: Traditional Witchcraft :feet:

This is a loose definition; there are many schools and kinds of Traditional Witchcraft. Essentially, traditional witches are practitioners of forms of witchcraft that pre-date modern Wicca and New Age practices. Some people use this term to refer to hereditary traditions that are exclusive to specific families. Others use the term for specifically British traditions pre-dating Gardnerian Wicca. Others consider traditional witchcraft to be a worldwide phenomenon that refers to any practitioner of folk magick.

⛧Wicca⛧

Wiccans perceive Wicca to be a specific religion or spiritual tradition, not just magickal practice, which may or may not be encouraged. By definition, Wiccans subscribe to the Wiccan Rede. Those who do not subscribe to the Wiccan Rede is not Wiccan. Wiccans worship a male and female deity, the Lord and Lady. Wicca has a religious calendar, as does any other religion. Festivals, known as sabbats and esbats, honor the Wheel Of The Year, the cyclical turning of nature's seasons. There are different denominations of Wicca, with different rules and restrictions, in the same way as Protestant denominations.

RESOURCES: The Weiser Field Guide to Witches by Judika Illes.

🌙Types Of Witches :crystal_ball:

⚰ Gray Witch- Gray witches will mostly benefit and harm at the same time. Creating a neutral or balanced effect. Gray witches believe you can't curse or heal, and that nature isn't completely positive nor negative. It is neutral and balanced.

⚰ Draconian Witch- Witches who called upon dragons, use dragon :dragon_face: imagery in their practice and worship dragon deities.

⚰ Green Witch- Interchangeably with a hedge (which is incorrect) witch. A green witch will likely have a good understanding of plant life and herbalism. A green witch will use items like rocks, crystals, animal parts and even fossils to cast magick. A green witch is also likely to use weather, like snow, rain, hailstones, etc.

⚰ Sea Witch- Sea witches are also called "water witches." However, many of them find a calling to inland creeks, rivers, and lakes. It is rare to limit themselves to one type of body of water. They align with all forms of water, including rain. Water reflects, a water witch does the same. If you yell, she'll yell back. The sea witch specializes in healing, cleansing, beauty, emotions, intuition and energy.

⚰ Kitchen Witch- A witch who focuses on magickal practices on the home, hearth and uses things commonly found in the kitchen.

⚰ Solitary Witch- A practitioner of witchcraft who chooses to practice in privacy, without the need to participate in a coven. However, it is not uncommon for a solitary witch to participate in some communal activities.

⚰ Nocturnal Witch- Is a variety of practices that embraces the energy of the night or some may say nocturnal witchcraft basically means the darker side of witchcraft.

RESOURCES: I got the definitions from different sites found on Google.